This is super-fruity Grenache/Garnacha which is far from cookie-cutter modern red but even has a certain delicacy. Overall it’s quite soft and easy (no oak was involved) but there’s a hint of tannin, presumably from the low-yielding, dry vineyards and even a bit of real interest. This is hot, dry country in which the minimum alcohol level required for a wine to be labelled with the denomination Cariñena (named after the main town, which lends its name to the Carignan grape) has been lowered from 14 to 12 per cent! It’s made by ManuelPiquer Guimerá in Muel, a bodega founded in the 1960s and now, obviously, fully modernised.